YA. YA. ANVELT

[22 February 1918]
First question: what are the latest data in military intelligence? 2) Second: what measures have been taken to strengthen the guard of your western border? 3) Third: how are the much-esteemed barons feeling, what has become of them? 4) Fourth: what, in your opinion, should the Council of People's Commissars undertake with respect to the barons in order to demonstrate such external goodwill, provided this demonstration in no way weakens the force of repressions against the aforementioned barons???
Lenin